Against Breast Cancer

Against Breast Cancer is a charity dedicated to funding ground breaking research to improve detection and increase survival after breast cancer diagnosis. Our expert scientists use one of the largest collections of breast cancer patient samples in the UK to look for vital information that could identify the spread of the disease.

More women are surviving breast cancer every year. Against Breast Cancer’s research looks at the whole woman through three interlinked areas of research -biochemistry, immunology, and diet and lifestyle.

The charity’s research is studying new ways that could help doctors identify and treat secondary breast cancer faster and more effectively and our ultimate aim is to find a vaccine.

Our national Diet & Lifestyle study is one of the largest in the world looking at the effects of diet, lifestyle and complementary treatments on breast cancer and long-term survival. Your support is vital for Against Breast Cancer to continue its innovative research to develop ways to improve detection and survival after diagnosis so women and men can look forward to a future free of breast cancer.

Anthony Nolan

Anthony Nolan is the only UK charity to help provide lifesaving transplants to people with blood cancer.

Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is told they have a blood cancer, such as leukaemia. For many of these people, a bone marrow transplant is their only chance of a cure. Your support could help give them that chance.

Every day, we use our register to match incredible individuals willing to donate their bone marrow to people in desperate need of a transplant. But we can only find a matching donor for half the people who come to us. And that’s where you come in.

Your gifts could help add more bone marrow donors to our register, find more matches - and save more lives.

Bowel and Cancer Research

B&CR is a unique organisation with three principle aims. The first is to improve survival rates for bowel cancer sufferers through research into the complex way that cancer behaves in individual patients. The second is to investigate the causes, effects and treatment of bowel disorders other than cancer which are currently poorly understood. The third is, through pioneering innovations in surgery, to improve the quality of life of patients suffering a range of bowel disorders who may otherwise need to rely upon a stoma(bag).

Bowel Cancer UK

Bowel Cancer UK is the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. Every 15 minutes someone is diagnosed, that’s almost 42,000 people every year. Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer with more than 16,000 people in the UK dying every year. However it shouldn’t be because it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone survives bowel cancer if diagnosed at the earliest stage. However this drops significantly as it develops. Early diagnosis really does save lives.

Bowel Cancer UK support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care. Our vision is a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer but we can’t achieve this alone. Support us. Take action. Because you can help save lives. Today.

Breast Cancer Now

We're excited to announce Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now are uniting to create one charity for everyone affected by breast cancer. From April 2019, we’ll be the UK’s first comprehensive breast cancer charity.

From research to care, our new charity will have people affected by breast cancer at its heart – providing support for today and hope for the future. United, we’ll have the ability to carry out even more world-class research, provide even more life-changing support and campaign even more effectively for better services and care.

Cancer Fund for Children

Cancer Fund for Children is Northern Ireland’s leading children’s cancer charity, providing practical, financial and therapeutic support to children and young people living with cancer.Our team are here to listen and to help the whole family cope with the impact cancer has on their lives and support them every step of the way, from diagnosis right through treatment. By supporting us, YOU are making sure that these families don’t have to face cancer alone.

Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK pioneers life- saving research to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.Our groundbreaking research into the prevention, control and treatment of cancer has seen survival rates double in the last 40 years. But we can’t stop there as sadly it is still the case that more than 1 in 3 of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives.We are fighting for a world where no one’s life is cut short by cancer. And we can only do this with the support of people like you.

Everyman Appeal

The Everyman Appeal is a fundraising campaign set up by and in aid of The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) to further our research into male-specific cancers.

Every year some 10,000 men lose their lives to prostate cancer and over 2,000 others have their world turned upside down by a diagnosis of testicular cancer. These men are the reason why we established the Everyman Appeal in 1997 and they’re the reason we’re still fundraising for male-specific cancers today.

The Everyman Appeal has been a huge success. It has so far raised over £10 million to support the work of the ICR’s scientists in investigating the causes of these diseases, and developing treatments and better methods of diagnosis. By supporting the Everyman Appeal you will help the ICR continue this work and make a real impact on cancer patients’ lives.

Friends of the Cancer Centre - Northern Ireland

Friends of the Cancer Centre has a long and proud history of helping local cancer patients across Northern Ireland for over 30 years.

Based at the heart of the Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital, the charity funds life-saving and life-changing projects that make a real and lasting difference to the lives of thousands of local people affected by cancer and in the last year alone, Friends of the Cancer Centre has put £1.2 million back into local cancer services.

Everything we do to support local cancer patients relies on our wonderful supporters who raise vital funds for us.

The good news is that the only limit to what you can do to raise money is your imagination. You can take part in one of our own events such as our Take on the Tower Abseil, Belvoir Walk and Slieve Donard Challenge, or get your family and friends together to organise your own fundraising event at home. You can also support us when you're at work by taking us on as your charity partner, taking on one of our events as a team, or by holding your own event with colleagues.

To give you some inspiration, take a look at our Be Inspired section below and feel free to contact our fundraising team at any time if you have a fundraising idea that we can support you with.

Hope for Tomorrow

As a cancer charity, we understand that time is a crucial factor for patients, and in 2007 we launched the world’s first ever MCU to bring vital cancer care closer to patients, enabling them to spend more time with family, friends and loved ones.

We develop, build, provide and maintain MCUs to support patients who are going through Chemotherapy by alleviating the stresses and strains of travelling for appointments, along with reducing hospital waiting times.

Working in a unique partnership with the NHS, we now have 11 MCUs operational in Gloucestershire, Somerset, South Wiltshire, Hampshire, East Kent, Lincolnshire, North Wiltshire, Cornwall, West Suffolk, East Essex and London/ Surrey, with two reserve MCUs in place to ensure continuity of service during the maintenance schedule. We also provide a Nurses Support Vehicle with each MCU, which allows the nursing team to travel to and from the daily treatment locations.

Since the launch of the first MCU in 2007, the charity has saved patients a total of over 2,000,000 miles and over 170,000 hours of travel and waiting time.

The charity won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – Innovation, in 2016. The Award is the UK’s highest accolade for business success, and was made in recognition of our achievements since the Founder, Christine Mills MBE, set up Hope for Tomorrow in 2003.

Leuka

27 people are diagnosed with leukaemia every day in the UK. That’s nearly 10,000 people every year who face the battle against this terrible disease.

At Leuka we invest in ground breaking research to find a cure for leukaemia and other blood cancers.

Until we make this a reality, we are dedicated to translating research into new treatments as quickly as possible, so patients can live better, longer lives.

Our founding chairman was Professor John Goldman, a pioneer in bone marrow transplantation for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) who wanted to bring the latest research breakthroughs from bench to bedside as quickly as possible. We started in Hammersmith hospital in 1982 and today, we support innovative cancer researchers all across the UK.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Being told ‘you have cancer’ can affect so much more than your health – it can affect your family, your job, even your ability to pay the bills.

But life with cancer is still life. We get that. And, after over 100 years of helping so many people, we get what’s most important: that we treat everyone as a person, not just a patient.

With your help we can do more for people living with cancer, giving each person the support they need to look after all that matters and take care of their health, protect personal relationships and deal with work and money worries.

We want to help everyone with cancer find their best way through, from the moment of diagnosis, so they’re able to live life as fully as they can. You can be someone who makes that happen.

Registered charity in England and Wales (261017), Scotland (SC039907) and the Isle of Man (604). Also operating in Northern Ireland.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie is here to help anyone with a terminal illness.

Marie Curie Nurses work night and day, in people’s homes across the UK, providing hands-on care and vital emotional support. If you’re living with a terminal illness, they can help you stay surrounded by the people you care about most, in the place where you’re most comfortable.

Our hospices offer the reassurance of specialist care and support, in a friendly, welcoming environment, for people living with a terminal illness and their loved ones –whether you’re staying in the hospice, or just coming in for the day.

Through our information and Support services we help everyone affected by a terminal illness get the information and support they need, whether you have an illness yourself or you’re a family member or friend.

We’ll be by your side with care and support every step of the way, bringing light in the darkest hours.

Myeloma UK

Registered as a charity in 1997, Myeloma UK is the leading UK cancer organisation dealing specifically with myeloma and its related disorders. Our broad and innovative range of services cover every aspect of myeloma, from information and support to improving standards of treatment and care through research, education, campaigning and raising awareness. Our strategy is to take an integrated approach to systematically address the barriers and challenges that are slowing down myeloma research and the development of, and access to, new treatments, optimal care, information and support.

Ovarian Cancer Action

Currently, a woman dies of ovarian cancer every two hours in the UK.

Ovarian Cancer Action is the UK’s leading ovarian cancer charity, dedicated to improving the survival rates of this disease.

We do this by funding world-class research at the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre based at Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital, by funding symptoms awareness campaigns aimed at women and healthcare professionals, and by giving people affected by the disease a voice, encouraging them to become advocates of the disease with policy makers, healthcare professionals and scientist.

Pancreatic Cancer Action

Pancreatic Cancer Action are a national charity dedicated to saving lives by improving early diagnosis and the quality of survival for those diagnosed. The charity’s approach is to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer to the public, the medical community and Government, provide education and training on pancreatic cancer to medical professionals and fund research specifically into improving early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

The charity’s ultimate goal is to ensure that more patients are diagnosed at early stage so that they have the best chance of survival.

Pancreatic Cancer UK

Pancreatic cancer is the 5th most common cause of cancer in the UK, but it has the lowest survival rate of the 21 most common cancers.

Out of 100 patients diagnosed only four patients will survive for five years or more.

Pancreatic Cancer UK is here to change all of that.

Our vision is a long and good life for everyone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic Cancer UK is the only national charity fighting pancreatic cancer on all fronts: Support, Information, Campaigning and Research.

Our flagship campaign, the Campaign for Hope has two simple goals; to double five-year survival rates within five years and change the experience of pancreatic cancer patients from one of the worst to one of the best. We work with MPs, Ministers, policy makers and health professionals to ensure that pancreatic cancer is high on the NHS agenda and we support people affected by pancreatic cancer to make their voice heard in parliament.

We provide hope by funding innovative research in to the causes of pancreatic cancer, better diagnosis and improved treatments. And we help people cope with a diagnosis by providing information and emotional support.

Your support could help us fund our vital work, to improve the lives of people with pancreatic cancer and their families.

Penny Brohn Cancer Care

Penny Brohn Cancer Care is the leading charity in the UK specialising in a Whole Person Approach to cancer. We recognise that cancer affects the mind, body, spirit and emotions and we offer support in each of these areas. We do this through our courses, groups and individual therapies, helping people live as well as they can with the impacts of cancer. Our services are free of charge but we rely on donations to support our work.

Prostate Cancer UK

Prostate Cancer UK fights to help more men survive prostate cancer and enjoy a better quality of life. We support men and provide vital information. We find answers by funding research into causes and treatments. And we lead change, raising the profile of the disease and improving care. We believe that men deserve better. Our purpose To help more men survive prostate cancer and enjoy a better quality of life.What we wantThe best diagnosis and treatment for all men, to cure or to prolong life without unpleasant side effects.New brandWe have chosen a new name and a new look to reach more men and speak more forcefully. By raising our voice we will raise the profile of prostate cancer much higher.

Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation gives help and hope to people affected by lung cancer.

The charity has a dual focus - saving lives and supporting people living with lung cancer. It saves lives through funding research, helping people to quit smoking & encouraging young people not to start smoking, campaigning for better outcomes for lung cancer patients and raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis. It supports people living with lung cancer by providing information materials to the NHS, running lung cancer support groups across the UK, supporting nurses, providing patient relief grants and offering telephone and online support.

St Raphael's Hospice

St Raphael's Hospice offers the best of palliative care to terminally ill patients living in Wimbledon, Merton, Sutton and Cheam. The Hospice is completely free of charge to its patients, regardless of the extent of services they receive and patients of all faith or none are welcome at St Raphael's. Our services include Home Care, a Day Care centre and an In-patient centre. The cost of providing our Hospice service has now reached over £50,000 each week, and we depend on the generosity of our supporters to enable that care to continue.

Teenage Cancer Trust

Most of us have been affected by cancer but for a young person the diagnosis is particularly cruel. Through our staff and specialist wards Teenage Cancer Trust’s aim is to be there for every one of them – but for every one we help right now there’s another we can’t.

We rely on generous support to continue our vital work so please help us make sure every teenager and young person with cancer gets the care they deserve.

Tenovus Cancer Care

If you have cancer or you’re close to someone who has, it can be frightening and stressful. We can help. We bring treatment, emotional support and practical advice to where it matters most; the heart of the community. Tenovus Cancer Care is here to help you cope, and through our vital research, we offer hope. We’re the leading cancer charity in Wales and, whenever you need us, we’re here.

The Elimination of Leukaemia Fund

Founded in 1977 ELF is a blood cancer charity focusing on patient centred work. By funding new or improved facilities and equipment we can support both patients and nurses.

Totally voluntary funded our aim is to fund grants for patient centred projects, fellowships and offer grants to families who as a result of their illness experience financial hardship.

Our key link is with Kings College London where ELF has immense links historically and currently supports a Gene Therapy Clinical Trial.We are also funding a clinical trials nurse at Guys Hospital in support of young adults with cancer.

The Eve Appeal

Every year a million women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer worldwide.In the UK,18,000 women are diagnosed and nearly 7,500 women die every year. And yet, awareness and funding of gynaecological cancers remains low. The Eve Appeal is determined to change this by fundingvital research to develop effective methods of prediction, detection, treatment and care that will help save women's lives. Our vision is simple:A future where fewer women develop and more women survive gynaecological cancers.

The Institute of Cancer Research

It’s hard to know what the future might bring but we do know that cancer is something that touches us all. Over the past 100 years The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has made some of the most important and ground-breaking discoveries in cancer research. Cancer patients worldwide are receiving life-saving treatments that were discovered and developed by us.

Over 83% of our expenditure directly supports our research activity and our scientists and clinicians are working daily in our labs – in Chelsea and Sutton, London – to make a real impact on cancer patients lives. As one of the world’s leading cancer research institutes you can rest assured that by supporting the ICR you will help make the discoveries that defeat cancer and bring hope to future generations of people with cancer.

The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust

The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust is the only UK charity funding medical research specifically into cancer affecting teenagers and young adults, where it can frequently strike in dangerous and complex forms. The Trust also funds measures to improve the quality of life for young cancer patients, both during and in the aftermath of their illnesses. Support is offered to all of the hospitals throughout the UK which treat teenage cancer (currently just 38).

Before the LCYCT was founded in 1996 there was no fund aimed specifically for research into cancer in 13-24 year olds. Research from the funds we raise will bring increased understanding of cancer in this age group, improved treatments and ultimately more young lives will be saved.

The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust supports measures to improve the quality of life for teenage cancer patients during their frequent and debilitating stays in hospitals. Teenagers are an age group onto themselves and require occupational and social activities to help keep up their motivation, which is so desperately needed to fight their illness and cope with the harsh regimes of treatment and the isolation from school, friends and family that it brings.

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World Cancer Research Fund UK is the leading charity on cancer prevention and survival research related to diet, physical activity and weight management. We fund and support scientific research into cancer prevention to ensure we have the latest and most authoritative information at our fingertips and then translate it into practical, easy-to-use tools and advice to help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce their cancer risk

Recent research has shown that about a third of the most common cancers (around 89,000 cases a year) are preventable if we ate a healthy diet, moved more and stayed in shape. By supporting us, you are helping to reduce the number of people who are affected by cancer and preventing the misery it causes by keeping loved ones together for longer.

Worldwide Cancer Research

Worldwide Cancer Research is a UK charity that funds ground-breaking cancer research projects around the world. By investing in the pioneering ideas of today, we are finding life-saving new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer for tomorrow. As 1 in 2 people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime, you, your family, or your friends may benefit from the research you’re supporting.